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Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] reric88@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine if phone companies started selling our conversations without giving us a cent for the content.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that where Google Maps gets traffic data from?

[–] Jaloopa@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. Google definitely uses location data to improve traffic details, but GPS has always been able to get some level of data about it, despite being mostly a one way system. I don't really remember the details, I'll try to dig out an article

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't a lot of calls get recorded now anyway? (I'm just asking, I don't actually know)

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not without consent of at least one party to the call, no. Unlike most forms of invasive spying, that one is illegal in many jurisdictions.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh my sweet summer child.

[–] 100years@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course security agencies are allowed to make recordings, pretty broadly in the US.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/five-things-to-know-about-nsa-mass-surveillance-and-the-coming-fight-in-congress

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm talking about businesses here. Government security agencies generally aren't bound by law or morality at all.